Youth Leadership Program: The Celebration Singing Tree
Hands-on Mural-Making
In this hands-on art-making workshop, we will engage in the creation of a Singing Tree mural from start to finish during the conference. It will be the 117th Singing Tree mural of a forest of trees made by over 21,000 people from 52 countries, part of an invitation for the whole world to make a painting together, based on the vision of an 8-year-old girl. The workshop will also include scientific information about the positive neurobiological impacts of the “Peace Building Through Art Inspired by Nature” program. Paint clothes will be provided. Hosted by Laurie Marshall, founder of the Unity Through Creativity Foundation and The Singing Tree Project. Facilitated by Singing Tree facilitators Leslie Rein and Sweta Chawla.
Terrace outside Tamalpais Room, Brower Center
April 6th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Laurie Marshall
Founder
Unity Through Creativity Foundation and the Singing Tree Project
Laurie Marshall, an author and artist, founder of the Unity Through Creativity Foundation and the Singing Tree Project, is a certified K-12 Art and Social Studies teacher who has worked for four decades to empower youth and adults through creative collaboration in her Peace Building through Art Inspired by Nature programs. An Arts Integration and Project-Based Learning specialist, she has served mostly low-income children, seeking to nurture creativity, a love of learning and a collaborative spirit and has made innovative use of visual art and storytelling in a wide range of consensus building, leadership training and conflict prevention initiatives with clients that have included NASA, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Interior, the U.S. Botanical Gardens, as well as public schools, hospitals and prisons around the U.S.
Sweta Chawla
Facilitator
Sweta Chawla, PharmD, a former professor of pharmacy turned leadership coach, is a certified Art of Sacred Circle, Singing Tree and Step into Your Moxie facilitator who uses art, self-awareness and vocal expression to empower her clients. She has published articles and essays in many journals and magazines, and is the author of I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For...Now What? as well as a contributor to the award-winning anthology: She’s Got This: Essays on Standing Strong and Moving On.
Leslie Rein
Facilitator
Singing Tree Project
Leslie Rein, a former mental health counselor, municipal government administrator, and dancer, has, since 2019, focused on visual art, including by working on collaborative murals as a Singing Tree Project facilitator and by facilitating the creation of large, collaboratively made chalk drawings on school playgrounds and in other public spaces.
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